The Gini coefficient, title of the new exhibition by Lydia Dambassina at the Geni Mosque (Yeni Cami), is a statistical measurement of revenue and the distribution of wealth. Is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates the perfect equality and 1 indicates the perfect inequality.
During her last nine years of work, Lydia Dambassina focuses on the global economic and moral crisis and the inequalities that unfold impetuously, as well as on her innermost correspondence.
The recent works that she exhibits at the Geni Mosque (Yeni Cami) compose, jointly, a uniform installation.
Her work «The Omphalos», in the middle of the Ottoman monument is the nucleus of the installation. It expresses a somber and cynical ascertainment. Τhe embalmed head of a massive deer, over which there is a sheet of paper hanging, with the phrase: “The world’s 62 richest people have as much as half of the world’s population –that is 3.5 billion people”.The series with the scales, is developed in the area creating a labyrinth. Dambassina proceeds to «weigh» her personal experiences and truths, her memories and descent, to refer to the current situation in an epoque where numbers, measures, sizes, tables of statistics and analyses are omnipotent .
Her photographs, portray versions of the same area, positioned in the part of the mosque, which was intended for women, in distinct separation from men who occupied the whole of the central part.
In direct connection and in a dialogue with the photographs, the installation of doors with black windowpanes is deployed, in order resembling an impassable wall. They function as «cartographies» of the limits between a woman’s and a man’s position, and as a signal to the impetuously expanding refugee issue.
The component that determines the works of the exhibition is duality: an «establishing», primordial and fundamental world-viewing concept that contains antithesis, co-existence, equilibrium. With a non-negotiable viewpoint and timely deliberation, avoiding description and recounting in her work and at the same time maintaining a moral stand, Lydia Dambassina acknowledges her vital liaison with world, she detects incomplete endeavours at personal and collective levels.

On the opening night, Joachim Latarjet, a musician, multiple instrument player –trombone, guitar, bass – will perform some of his compositions to accompany and talk with the works of Lydia Dambassina.